Codea 3.12 (482)

Bugs
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@sim @john @jfperusse - latest issue that I have, which I think is related to this, is that when I switch to the settings page in my newest iPad looking at the top left is a message that my iCloud Drive is almost full. Tapping on it it fires up a message giving details of my allocation and offers to extend my iCloud usage at various levels.

But - it fires up two of these overlapping message boxes and one is offset horizontally so that you can’t read it. The images shake.

This must be tied in some way to having two pads or is it possible it could be down to two folders of the same name in my iCloud account ?

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@sim @john @jfperusse - just exploring my two Codea folders on iCloud. The one without the small icon (ie a normal folder) is full of apps in the root of the folder or in a sub folder.

There is a plist file present which I have listed below


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>HiddenInProjectBrowser</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Could you explain what the HiddenInProjectBrowser means.

There are a lot of files there and, in the interests of minimising my iCloud storage load - are they delectable without loss from Codea apps on my iPad?

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Interesting! I just checked the code and it seems like we no longer use that key (HiddenInProjectBrowser) in any recent versions of Codea. I think that may have been used at some point in the past to prevent certain folders from showing up (think things like your old Dropbox.assets folder, for example)

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@sim - thanks for that reply, I think it means that I now have separate Codea iCloud folders for each of my iPads. It must also mean that the appearance of a second folder is concurrent with iOS changes. Not an ideal situation resulting in some duplicate files and probably what led to my confusion with asset management recently.

Have you access to older iPads to confirm this behaviour ?

Question - why should I have a hidden duplicate Dropbox folder/files in my iCloud ?
Just checked my Dropbox folder and it doesn’t contain the same spread of folders/files. The iCloud duplicate folder is dominated with Codea projects and assets but significantly different from the iCloud folder bearing the small Codea icon.

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@sim did something change with material.basic? i don’t seem to be able to define the colour of the material anymore? Switching to material.standard it does still work. This change seems to have happened quite a few versions ago.

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Is this in Craft or the newer Carbide (Modern) renderer?

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i see the issue with craft

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@sim - just an idea:

Wouldn’t it be better to house the demos externally, like on a website, with a built in link in Codea. You could give access to all with the ability, for users who manage to produce relevant good quality demos, to include/broaden the options. It would also be a good advert for Codea. You could have separate sections for V3 and V4.

I don’t believe this would replace WebRepo which hosts mainly finished projects rather than demos.

It would also free up space on our iPads for more projects.

Also, I’m not sure how many users actually use the folder options, within Codea root, to store project development versions in. I have about 10 but I tend not to use them. Could you omit them. They could still be accessible via the asset system.